Monthly Archives: May 2017

Standing as Metaphor

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Working this summer on a book I began thinking about while still teaching at Vanderbilt University in the 1980’s. The first chapter explores the metaphor of standing in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.” What does it meaning … Continue reading →

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Memorial Day

Posted on May 29, 2017 by Scott Abbott

  My dad, just out of high school, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for flight training. This led to his service as navigator of a B-29 flying from Tinian and Iwo Jima to bomb Japan. Here’s what I write … Continue reading →

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Both Sides, Now

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Scott Abbott

Joni Mitchell’s song “Both Sides, Now,” has haunted me since the first summer I worked as a roughneck in Eloy and Wickenburg Arizona. Cloud illusions, life’s illusions — she knows the other, real, troubled side and still, it is the illusions … Continue reading →

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Der Himmel über Utah Valley

Posted on May 6, 2017 by Scott Abbott

The evening began with an explosion of light. Hottest May 5th on record. The sun set, accompanied by cloud flourishes. This was the moment I knew it would be an evening of delight. Joy. Clouds blushed to the northeast. Visual … Continue reading →

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